Matt Helm Series / Books & a DVD of The SILENCERS Starring Dean Martin as Matt Helm: Death Citizen; Silencers; Ambushers; Ravagers; Devastators; Betrayers; Menacers; Interlopers; Poisoners; Intriguers; Intimidators; Terminators; Retaliators -13 Volumes by Hamilton, Donald - 1976

London: Macmillan, 1985 First printing of the first British edition, preceding the American edition by 13 years. Brown cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine. Author's first book. Age toning to page margins, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

215 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in publisher's original black with orange "red badge" insignia on front cover and orange lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.To save a judge's daughter, Mike Shayne must invade the red-light district. For twenty years, Judge Nigel Lansdowne has been one of Washington's greatest progressives. The red-baiters in Congress would do anything to destroy his reputation, and they may have found the perfect weapon. Her name is Julia, but when she dances she goes by Dorinda. The judge's daughter came to Miami in search of a new life, and she found it dancing nude in the city's infamous red-light district. Mike Shayne is hired to bring Julia home before the judge's enemies learn of her new career, but his real job will be keeping her alive. Someone in Miami wants this beautiful dancer dead, and only Mike Shayne can help her. In the nightclubs of Miami Beach, music is played to a deadly beat.Dresser was born in Chicago, Illinois, but… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket soiled and lightly tattered, pages . toned.. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The prolific mystery author's second book, featuring an auto racing detective, Beau Pepys, that chronologically precedes the storyline in Hammond's first published novel, Fred in Situ. Stamp of literary agent Curtis Brown on front free endpaper and title page. Jacket art by Peter Calcott. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

The Pequod Press, 1988. First Edition. Unknown. Fine. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Handsewn printed wraps. Printed letterpress by John Ruyle at Pequod Press. One of 100 paper copies, this being #116. Light wear to wraps, else Near Fine. Another of the entertaining and witty 'Turlock Loams' parodies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, authored and printed by John Ruyle. Ruyle's private press - the Pequod Press - issued numerous Sherlockian and other titles for over thirty years.

NY: R. H. Russell. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, owner name stamped on front . pastedown and owner signature on front free endpaper.. 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth with color illustration inset on front boards and gilt titles and lamppost design on spine. Illustrations by Thomas Mitchell Peirce and F. D. Steele. BAL 4537, binding A. A classic of detective fiction and a Queen's Quorum title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 155 pages .

London: Macmillan, 1985 First printing of the first British edition, preceding the American edition by 13 years. Brown cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine. Author's first book. Age toning to page margins, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1994 First printing of the first British edition. Author's first novel and the first in the series of mystery novels set in medieval Oxford. Signed by Ian Morson directly on the title page. Soft tiny crease to upper corner of inside flap, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

215 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in publisher's original black with orange "red badge" insignia on front cover and orange lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition.To save a judge's daughter, Mike Shayne must invade the red-light district. For twenty years, Judge Nigel Lansdowne has been one of Washington's greatest progressives. The red-baiters in Congress would do anything to destroy his reputation, and they may have found the perfect weapon. Her name is Julia, but when she dances she goes by Dorinda. The judge's daughter came to Miami in search of a new life, and she found it dancing nude in the city's infamous red-light district. Mike Shayne is hired to bring Julia home before the judge's enemies learn of her new career, but his real job will be keeping her alive. Someone in Miami wants this beautiful dancer dead, and only Mike Shayne can help her. In the nightclubs of Miami Beach, music is played to a deadly beat.Dresser was born in Chicago, Illinois, but… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket soiled and lightly tattered, pages . toned.. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The prolific mystery author's second book, featuring an auto racing detective, Beau Pepys, that chronologically precedes the storyline in Hammond's first published novel, Fred in Situ. Stamp of literary agent Curtis Brown on front free endpaper and title page. Jacket art by Peter Calcott. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

The Pequod Press, 1988. First Edition. Unknown. Fine. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Handsewn printed wraps. Printed letterpress by John Ruyle at Pequod Press. One of 100 paper copies, this being #116. Light wear to wraps, else Near Fine. Another of the entertaining and witty 'Turlock Loams' parodies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, authored and printed by John Ruyle. Ruyle's private press - the Pequod Press - issued numerous Sherlockian and other titles for over thirty years.